Subsystem · BIZ
Business
Sponsorships, budget, and outside partnerships that keep the team funded and supplied.
Lead filledTaking members
A founding team runs on money it does not have yet. This subsystem gets it — and then makes sure it is spent on the right things in the right order.
What makes it hard
Engineering teams overspend early on the fun parts and run out before the parts that actually decide the competition. Enforcing a budget across seven subsystems that all believe their thing is critical is a real job, and doing it well is the difference between a rover that gets finished and one that does not.
What you’d get out of it
Real fundraising and operations experience with a concrete product to sell, and direct exposure to the engineering side — which is exactly the combination technical companies hire business students for.
Tools
Sponsorship decks and one-pagers Budget tracking CRM / outreach pipeline
Member openings
Join the subsystem and own a piece of it. No lead experience needed.
Sponsorship lead
Own the pipeline from first email to signed commitment.
Finance & purchasing
Budget across subsystems, track spend, and keep parts arriving on time.